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Wow, that sounds freakin' awesome. Thanks for starting this thread. I still need to finish Gravity's Rainbow. To be honest, I don't think I was paying careful enough attention last time. When the seances started, I kind of lost my way. Anyway, if we're allowed to use this thread to discuss not...

My favourite Hitchcock film, that. I was aware that it was originally made in 3-D. Now, I'd like to see Dial M in the original 3-D technology, to see how that looks, and compare it to what we have today. Anyone have any idea if there's a retro 3-D cinema club which does it like they did in the...

Thanks for the clarification, craner. That sounds about right. I would still say that we're definitely supposed to be rooting for the torturers. Not necessarily when they're doing the torturing, but later in the film, the audience is supposed to be rooting for those very same people --...

No, the new film with Gael Garcia Bernal. I can't believe so many people are going wild for this. Besides the videotape look and the design, which were absolutely spot on, capturing the aesthetics of the time perfectly, there was so much wrong with the plot. Mostly, and I'm not giving anything...

Let me just ask, though: besides whether the film 'glorifies' torture or not on an aesthetic level (I'd say it probably does), I can't remember if the crucial evidence Maya uses to track down Bin Laden in the film actually leads them to him. Because if it does, that's a straight-up endorsement...

I find it infuriating when political journalists attack a film for not portraying the world as they see it. True, blatant propaganda like Top Gun and Pearl Harbour needs to be flagged up as such, as do historical inaccuracies, and even the wider role a film like Zero Dark Thirty plays in the...

That's one chillingly amusing description of genocide, right there. But even though Herzog and Errol Morris have signed on as exec producers, I'm still inclined think this may be an elaborate hoax. You have to consider that, even if it turns out to be untrue. The whole premise of the film is...

No way. If anyone deserves to go bust, it's a vampiric timeshare mogul who helped George W Bush cheat his way to victory in Florida. If bankruptcy only happened to one person a year, he'd have to be on my shortlist.

Can you get odds on big trials like these from Ladbrokes? I think that would be a really good idea. Especially as the defendant, you know how fucked you are, and can plead accordingly. You can also 'go short' on your verdict, so that no matter what happens, you at least stand to win some money...

The insanity of our justice system is that on one of the clearest-cut cases of guilt you're likely to come across, I can conceive of Brooks and Coulson both getting five years, or six months suspended, or getting off. They all seem totally possible in our uneven, unpredictable justice system...

Brooks and Coulson have got to be shitting themselves now, with April Casburn (the Met officer who leaked for cash) getting 15 months. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/feb/01/april-casburn-sentenced-15-months-phone-hacking

The Queen of Versailles. Catch it on BBC iPlayer while you still can. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qbz9m/Storyville_20122013_Queen_of_Versailles/ Never have I pointed at a screen and shouted "Yeah!" and "Take it!" and "Serves you right!" so much. The ultimate schadenfreude film...

ECHR isn't an EU thing, it's Council of Europe (don't ask), so that would still remain. Hopefully. Hopefully. There's talk of walking out of that treaty (which Churchill wanted us in, and ratified) and having a "British Bill of Rights," which will obviously be about as powerful a document as...

It's pretty hard to level with things like the Common Agricultural Policy (most of the subsidies go to big landowners like Prince Charles) and the wastage of fish as a result of the EU's fishing policies. The austerity imposed in exchange for bailouts is cruel and ironically similar to the...

OK, researched this a little more and, crucially, seen it. Just walked out of it in fact. Not walked out as in left early, but exited at credits. And here's my thoughts: it is, as I expected, a brilliantly put-together film in the same vein, and the same style, as Inglorious Basterds. The...

Does Tarantino have any moral agendas? I've not really looked into it, so I may be wrong. He may well have made some statement about his films having a moral message, but I've not seen it. From what I've read, he's been pretty much consistent in saying that onscreen violence is totally different...

A lot of folks on the left are saying that we may be better off out of the EU. They've got a point. The EU is just another layer of unaccountable government. As much of a cliche as it is though, I tend to think we're better off in than out. What do you think?

It looks to me like an Inglorious Basterds prequel. I'll say this about Tarantino, in relation to his films being less formulaic than your average Hollywood guff. He's full of contradictions. They're not as unimaginative with their dialogue, characterisation, music, cinematography, structure...

But this is probably the best thing I've seen in ages, from Adam Curtis's blog. Apologies if it's already been posted, but it really is marvellous. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/08/mental_channel_number_one_-_th.html

This conspiracy road trip is good for a giggle. Especially the guy with the tin-foil helmet to protect himself from alien mind rays.